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Ben Schott: I’m Tony Blair’s brother (according to Google)
The globe (Golden and otherwise) has rightly fallen h-o-h for Olivia Colman who, before The Crown, The Favourite and Peep Show,…
Twelve things we’ve learned from the 2019 election
Britain’s parliamentary democracy is easily mocked: the medievalisms, the men in tights, the ayes to the right. But it has…
How Boris can make the extra cash for the NHS really count
It would be daft for someone to offer you £1.8 billion and you turn it down. That sort of money…
The people vs Brexit: a very elite insurgency
The very best impressionists do not simply mimic the mannerisms, speech patterns and facial expressions of their targets — they…
Welcome to the age of media feeding frenzies
Tony Blair once remarked, during one of the periodic feeding frenzies that engulf British politics, that public life was becoming…
Is Macron’s vanity presidency already falling apart?
The French president’s embarrassing attempts to reinvent himself as the new Tony Blair are not working
Arms and the man
Meeting men used to be so easy. I don’t mean that in a Grindr sort of way. I just mean…
Brexit, George Osborne, and the art of post-factual politics
Sir John Chilcot’s report into the Iraq invasion, due to be published on 6 July, is expected to highlight the novel…
Might Eurovision determine the outcome of the EU referendum?
You might not think that the Eurovision Song Contest (screened live from Stockholm tonight) could have any connection with how…
The time when Putin seduced Corbyn in an East Berlin nightclub
Corbyn the Musical feels like it comes from the heart. Did the writers live through the 1970s when the hard-left…
I was a politician’s daughter, so I’m backing young Caroline Cruz
Like millions of non-Americans hooked on the US election, I’m backing someone even though I don’t have a vote. I…
Could a pot of yoghurt defeat David Cameron?
I do not know if it has officially been measured, but my guess is that Christine Shawcroft, a member of…
What’s next for Comrade Corbyn?
‘Ah, Jeremy,’ remarked Tony Blair at a smart dinner party in Islington not long before he became prime minister, ‘he…
On Europe, Iraq and Syria why can’t our politicians just tell the truth?
It has been over a month since Parliament voted to bomb Isis in Syria, yet in that time there have…
Labour’s failure and Lady Colin Campbell’s popularity point to one thing: the politics of envy has failed
Last week I put £25 on Lady C to win I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here. At 25/1,…
Portrait of the week
Home After it was twice defeated in the Lords on its plans to reduce working tax credits, the government announced…
David Frost’s tablet in Poet’s Corner should have read: ‘To the Unknown Television Presenter’
On 13 March 2014 a congregation of 2,000 people, including many of the great and the good, gathered in Westminster…
Piers Morgan’s diary: What I have in common with Jeremy Corbyn – and Katie Hopkins
Party conference season is the most pointless waste of money, time and liver quality ever devised. I attended these sweaty,…
What Jeremy Corbyn, like David Cameron, understands about the cold, dark heart of the British public
There’s a hard, hard mood out there among the public and I don’t think our newspapers get it at all.…
How God could save Jeremy Corbyn
On religion, Jeremy Corbyn is interestingly moderate, circumspect — not the angry atheist you might expect. In a recent interview…
‘Perhaps we needed to tip the whole thing over’: Jon Cruddas on Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Shortly before the last election a group of Labour MPs approached Ed Miliband to ask him what he would do…
On drone strikes, David Cameron is repeating Tony Blair’s big mistake
Not even Jeremy Corbyn lamented the death of Reyaad Khan, who was killed by an RAF drone in Syria after…
Charles Moore’s Notes: Mr Cameron swings wildly between toughness and compassion
Presumably Britain has some sort of policy on immigration, asylum and refugees, but instead of struggling to understand it, you…
Sidney Blumenthal: peddler of tired old clichés about British politics
I remember Sidney Blumenthal from my time in Washington in the late 1980s when I was there as the first…
Forget Chilcot. Here’s the inquiry we really need
It might actually be better if Sir John Chilcot’s report is never published. I for one can no longer be…
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